Medal of Honor recipient Cassin Young
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Cassin Young was a United States Navy officer and World War II destroyer commander who received the Medal of Honor for his heroism during the attack on Pearl Harbor.
All labels observed (1)
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| Medal of Honor recipient Cassin Young canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7719200 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Medal of Honor recipient Cassin Young Context triple: [USS Cassin Young, hasNamesake, Medal of Honor recipient Cassin Young]
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Medal of Honor recipient Charles Hammann
Charles Hammann was a U.S. Navy aviator in World War I who received the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions in rescuing a downed fellow pilot under enemy fire.
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Sergeant York
Sergeant York is a 1941 biographical war film about World War I hero Alvin C. York, renowned for its patriotic themes and Gary Cooper’s Academy Award-winning performance.
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C.
Medal of Honor recipient Dale M. Hansen
Dale M. Hansen was a United States Marine who received the Medal of Honor for extraordinary heroism during World War II.
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D.
Alvin C. York
Alvin C. York was a highly decorated American World War I soldier renowned for his heroism in the Meuse-Argonne offensive and later celebrated as a national war hero.
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E.
Kermit Brashear
Kermit Brashear is an American attorney and former Nebraska state senator who served as Speaker of the Nebraska Legislature.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Medal of Honor recipient Cassin Young Target entity description: Cassin Young was a United States Navy officer and World War II destroyer commander who received the Medal of Honor for his heroism during the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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A.
Medal of Honor recipient Charles Hammann
Charles Hammann was a U.S. Navy aviator in World War I who received the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions in rescuing a downed fellow pilot under enemy fire.
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B.
Sergeant York
Sergeant York is a 1941 biographical war film about World War I hero Alvin C. York, renowned for its patriotic themes and Gary Cooper’s Academy Award-winning performance.
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C.
Medal of Honor recipient Dale M. Hansen
Dale M. Hansen was a United States Marine who received the Medal of Honor for extraordinary heroism during World War II.
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D.
Alvin C. York
Alvin C. York was a highly decorated American World War I soldier renowned for his heroism in the Meuse-Argonne offensive and later celebrated as a national war hero.
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E.
Kermit Brashear
Kermit Brashear is an American attorney and former Nebraska state senator who served as Speaker of the Nebraska Legislature.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Medal of Honor recipient Cassin Young Description of subject: Cassin Young was a United States Navy officer and World War II destroyer commander who received the Medal of Honor for his heroism during the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.